- Climate Change
- Composting
- Container Gardening
- Crafts & Recipes
- Foraging
- Fruiting Plants
- Garden Design & Planning
- Gardening Practices
- Gardens to Visit
- Health
- Herbs
- Houseplants
- Invasive Plants
- Lawns
- Native Plants – General
- Native Plants – by Growing Conditions
- Native Plants – by Season
- Native Plants – by Type
- Pests
- Plant Diseases
- Pruning
- Soil
- Vegetable Gardening
- Water
- Weeds
- Wildlife
About Public Education Classes
Our public education classes fall under three broad categories use by Virginia Cooperative Extension.
These are:
- Best Management Practices
- Sustainable Landscaping
- Urban Agriculture
Best Management Practices

Basic techniques to start, rejuvenate or troubleshoot any garden – ornamental or vegetable – and keep it thriving.
Sustainable Landscaping

Techniques for the design, construction and management of landscapes in built environments that conserve storm water, reduce pollution, integrate locally native plants to support wildlife, and reduce or eliminate the uses of fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides and fossil fuel inputs.
Urban Agriculture

Techniques for successfully growing vegetables, herbs and fruit in urban and suburban landscapes – whether backyards, front yards, rooftop gardens, balconies, school yards or community gardens – for you and your family and sharing the harvest largesse with others.
Online Public Education Classes & Glencarlyn Videos
Enjoy our complete collection of videos from MGNV/VCE, organized by topic. There are two types of videos in our collection:
- Public Education Classes: These include a webpage with the class video and additional resources. These videos are close-captioned and have chapter breaks so you can pick and choose which section to watch.
- Glencarlyn Library Community Garden videos: These short videos, created by the coordinators of Glencarlyn, provide an alternative, distanced means to access the educational content offered at the garden’s annual AutumnFest event.
Glencarlyn videos are marked with an asterisk.
Gardening Practices

Build Healthy Soil and Manage Water in Your Yard
Caring for Your Native Plants Garden
New in 2023!
Challenges of the Summer Garden
Cutting Back Hellebores & Epimedium in Spring *
Cutting Back Native Plants in Spring *
The Residential Greenhouse
New in 2023!
Science & Mythos: Plant Names and the Tales Behind Them
New in 2023!
Succulents and Cacti 101
New in 2023!
Sustainable Landscaping Basics
SEE ALSO Composting, Pruning, Soil, Water
Native Plants, General

Beautiful Native Plants *
(series of 12 short videos)
Climate-Conscious Gardening: Native Plants *
Native Trees & Shrubs for Pollinators
New in 2023!
Native Plants, by Growing Condition

Native Plants for Dry Conditions
Native Plants for Shade
New in 2023!
Native Plants, by Type

Pests

Browsers of the Garden Buffet: Strategies for Dealing with Deer
New in 2023!
Control Mosquitoes & Ticks without Pesticides
Disease and Pest Management for Fruit Bearing Woody Plants
Insect Pest Management for the Vegetable Garden
Managing Wildlife in the Home Landscape
Pests & Diseases in the Garden: Organic Prevention
Scale Control: Crape Myrtle, Holly and More
New in 2023!
Pruning

Pruning Basics
New in 2023!
Pruning Perennials and Shrubs: Summer
2021
Pruning Trees and Shrubs: Winter
Summer Pruning of Woody & Herbaceous Plants: Doing the Chelsea Chop!
2022
Summer Pruning
Updated in 2023!
Vegetable Gardening

Advanced Vegetable Gardening:
Take Your Garden to the Next Level
New in 2023!
Edible Landscape Design
New in 2023!
How to Grow a Salsa Garden
Arlington 4-H & Junior Master Gardeners
Identify & Manage Diseases in the Vegetable Garden
Insect Pest Management for the Vegetable Garden
Introduction to Vegetable Gardening
New in 2023!
Managing the Vegetable Garden’s Overabundance
New in 2023!